Welcome to Air Ships and Dragons
Build mighty Airships! Battle Dragons and flying monsters! Defend your island from hordes of undead and horrible beasts! Uncover the mystery behind the world and prepare yourself for a journey through the undiscovered lands! With stunning visuals from Complimentary shaders, beautiful scenery and a completely custom soundtrack. Dragons & Airships seeks to be one of the most ambitious packs to date.
(A big thanks to all the hard working modders and developers who dedicate their time to creating such amazing content! Without them, none of this would be possible! The minecraft modding community has come such a long way over the years)

This pack is currently discontinued, we are building an Indie game called Impractical spells! However, I will release what I have here. If this gets enough attention I may come back and polish this pack up :)

These Dev builds are far from the finished version, and are purely to allow our modders and developers to test, create, and help optimize and fix issues as the pack approaches public release.

This pack is currently balanced around optifine's shaders,
We will release a non shader version for older pc's.
Below are instructions about where and how to download Optifine :)

AI have contacted the developer to see if he will let us upload optifine with the pack, but have not heard back yet.
Until then we will have to manually download it from here.
https://optifine.net/downloads Go to here, select show all versions.
Scroll down to find 1.12.2 download OptiFine HD U G5

The state of the pack

At this stage of the pack, We are very nearing completion! The new version will run much more smoothly!
we are testing for bugs, optimizing, and fine tuning the balance, content, and accomplishing goals in our roadmap.
Our goal is to create one of the most optimized, crash free, and aesthetically pleasing packs out there.
Airships & Dragons seeks to offer a unique experience that is on par with modern developed games :)

Major features :
- Sky islands and floating terrain
- An intricate airship system courtesy of the hardworking coders developing valkerian skies.
- A handmade and custom soundtrack.
- Unique threats and challenges such as dragons or naga that fly and can cause havoc upon your ship.
- Lively villages.

- Hundreds of QOL improvements

- Focus on balance and performance.

Shipped with some of the best and mod friendly visuals available for 1.12 thanks to Emingtr, the developer of complementary shaders who has graciously allowed us to ship complementary shaders with the pack.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/customization/complementary-shaders
Complimetary shaders by EminGTR

Roadmap :

-add in a questing system to help along new players and give clear goals for goal oriented players.
-Fill up the world with floating island friendly natural structures
-Optimize the game and make it playable on a 8 hour session without any crashes
-Increase fps by at least 20%
-Finish the soundtrack
-Vertically stack dimensions and create thunder dimension below the overworld
-Add a narration/tutorial system for new players
-Create flying Tenshi Dragon
-create a potato PC version.
-Increase world generation speed
-Balance pass for all biomes to make them look smooth and clean
-add in proper raids and challenges with HW invasions and the Onslaught mod
-Create a proper narrated story that is funny and enjoyable

-add in a better localized storm system that is shader friendly.

-Publish the pack

Known Issues :
Slow world gen
Occasional lag/stutter while exploring
Ambient mobs spawn too much.
World gen needs an overhaul
Playing for long sessions in single player can eventually crash the game while running 3g memory and under.
taking up too much memory.

Modlist : Organized by Category

Core gameplay
Summary : Fight Dragons, fly across the sky in massive airships, experience a completely overhauled sky island terrain generation system with over 300 biomes.

Ice and Fire Dragons : Adds in a ton of awesome and challenging mobs to the game! Beware, here be dragons!

Open Terrain Generator (OTG) : Overhauls the Minecraft terrain generation system to allow complete user control.

-OTG pack is made from a combined condensed version of
Biome Bundle 'O Plenty (MCPitman) [Download]
Alien Jungle (MCPitman) [Download]

Skylands (MCPitman)[Download]
Dregora (NLBlackEagle) [Download]
these have been converted into the format of Skylands, giving the overworld over 300 different biomes to explore all in the style of floating islands.
Valkerian skies : Create intricate and amazing airships block by block!

Optimization (Bug fixes, optimizing Mojang's code, better culling of entities, reducing clutter, unloading uneeded things, improving Mojang's lighting engine, improvements to memory usage)

Optifine : Improves fps in some situations, adds in shaders and expands video settings.

Sledgehammer : Bug fixing galore. Fixes many different issues.

Clumps : Groups xp orbs together to reduce lag.

BetterFps : Improves fps by 20 on my pc in some areas.

Ai Improvements : A helpful AI optimizing mod that increases server TPS.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ai-improvements

Ai Reducer : Optimizes Monster Collisions and reduces TPS strain for some Ice and fire mobs.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ai-reducer

Bad Mobs : Allows us to remove entities from being spawned that cause issues.
One such issue this helps with in the pack, stopping random piranha entities from spawning on the ground in swamp biomes and impacting TPS.

Entity Culling : Improves vanilla culling behavior of entities off screen to improve FPS. Can improve fps massively in certain situations.

Stackie : Helps reduce item lag by stuffing items together.

TexFix : Reduces the memory footprint of textures to decrease memory usage.

Foam Fix : Targeted optimizations that improve Minecraft's memory usage.

Lag'B'Gon : Unloads un-needed chunks and entities thus helping out your TPS.
Performant : Improves Minecraft TPS with targeted optimizations
Phosphor : Improves Minecraft's lighting engine to be more fast and performant.

TanFix : Fixes a crash with tough as nails.

Vanillafix : Optimization mod that helps in various ways related to performance and crashes

Aesthetic (ambient sounds, music, footsteps, changing seasons, screen splats and effects, better animations, ui, coral reefs, birds, insects, realistic cave reverb, underground biomes, shooting stars, and more!)

Ambience - Extras (Music Mod)
created on top of the original Ambience mod from Vazkii, Adds the functionality to create a blending music system.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ambience-extras

AmbientSounds 3 : A wonderful mod that adds in ambient sounds to different environments. Helps fill in the soundscape.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ambientsounds

Better Animations Collection : Adds some beautiful animations to many vanilla mobs.

Butterflys : Adds in butterflies.

Coral Reef : Adds in beautiful coral reefs to ocean biomes (Works with the sky islands terrain)

Dynamic Surroundings : Adds in all sorts of awesome aesthetic effects. Footsteps, ambience, and even allows the configuration and culling of every single individual sound within the game.

Enhanced Visuals : Adds screen effects to various things like heat, cold, damage, and near death.

Fancy Menu : allows us to customize nearly every aspect of the main menu and title screen.

Exotic Birds : adds a few birds to the environment as well as nests.

Light The Night : Adds in various glowing trees and things to make the night time a bit brighter.

Better Underground Reborn : adds in stalactites, stalagmites, and glowing mushrooms to some cavernous areas.

Mo'Bends : Overhauls player animations and makes the player feel more modern in their animation and movement.

Mob dismemberment : adds dismemberment and a bit of gore to many vanilla mobs replacing the default fall flat and turn red on death effect.

Nyx : Adds in shooting stars and meteors.

Regrowth : Villagers will clean up their villages, plants will spawn.

Serene Seasons : Adds in changing seasons to the game that will effect the player temperature and create snowfall in winter.

Serene tweaks : Changes seasons as you load chunks making the transition more smooth and uniform between seasons.

Simple Underground Biomes : Changes the default Minecraft stone to be like logs which have multiple types allowing for more aesthetic diversity based on location.

Smooth Font : Improves Minecraft's font to be a bit smoother and easier on the eyes.

Sound Filters : location based sound reverb that drastically improves immersion and ambience in certain settings such as caves.

The Birdwatching mod : Adds in various birds to the game

Tumbleweed : A nice little effect that adds tumble weeds to some hot biomes.

Resource packs :

We have been given permission to ship beastrinia with the pack to save users download speed.

The same goes for non core Sphax packs that offer modded texture support.

Beastrinia
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/annahstas-beastrinia-pokemon-inspired-32x
Sphax Biomes o plenty support https://bdcraft.net/community/releases-for-mods-f9/biomes-plenty-t1098.html#p40191
Tinkers Construct Sphax pack https://bdcraft.net/community/releases-for-mods-f9/tinkers-construct-t772.html#p43741
thaumcraft sphax pack https://bdcraft.net/community/viewtopic.php?t=1114
forestry sphax pack https://bdcraft.net/community/viewtopic.php?t=147

Content (quests, new dimensions, become a vampire, become a blood mage, upgrade your gear, study death, become an arborist!)

Corail Tombstone : Adds in many interesting things related to death
including a tech tree. Rather than dropping your items everywhere, it will be stored safely in a grave.

Enhanced Armaments : Improve your weapons with special powers, allows your weapons to level up with you as you use them. And also gives some weapons special modifiers that give them more damage.

Thaumcraft : All things related to magic

Aether : Adds in a peaceful sky island dimension, this mod is utilized by OTG to add in mobs and biomes to the overworld as well.

Blood Magic : Adds dark magic based on blood and a magically themed tech line to the game.

The Erebus : Adds in an insect dimension, many of the insects are utilized in the overworld too.

Toroquest Revamped : Overhauls villages, adds bandits, mobs, bosses, and quests.

Vampirism : Adds in a fun system related to vampirism or hunting vampires.

Forestry : he's a lumberjack and he's okay!

Exploration focus; challenge

(invasions, dungeons, monsters and dangerous fauna! Smarter monsters, monsters that break blocks and build! more monsters, Even more monsters! New structures to explore! run from spiders crawling on ceilings, get hit by zombies with diamond swords, freeze to death!)

Hostile Worlds Invasions : Adds in invasions on certain nights that will give the player a challenge and something to protect their base from.Choclate Quest Repoured : Adds in dungeons with unique boss fights. Adds allot of challenging content to battle through while exploring.

Dungeon Tactics : Adds in allot of fun little things to the game, loot, dungeons, mobs, weapons, this mod adds in a little bit of everything.

EmberRoot Zoo : Adds in many new mobs to fight.

Epic Siege Mod : Improves vanilla mob AI giving some mobs special abilities. In our modpack skeletons are configured to build and break blocks as needed to reach the player.

Fish's undead Rising : Adds in many new and exciting mobs related to undead.

Mowsies Mobs : adds in allot of Very well made high quality mobs to the game. Our favorite is the Naga.

Nether Hexed Kingdom : Adds in some new structures and mobs to the nether to make nether exploration more challenging and interesting.

Rough Mobs 2 : Equips mobs with battle gear and makes them a bit tough and more diverse.

Spiders 2.0 : Spiders can move like actual spiders, truly terrifying and awesome.

Tough as nails : Adds in a temperature system for when you get hot or cold.

Exploration focus; experience

(use grappling hooks, hang gliders, rope bridges to get around. Find quest boards, new mobs, new biomes, loads of new structures, creepers growing from plants, loads of trinkets and cool loot to find!)

Grappling Hook Mod : Adds in a fully functional grappling hook that allows the player to swing like Tarzan.

Abyssal Depths : this mod adds well designed water creatures that make exploring the deep ocean biomes much more challenging and interesting.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/abyssal-depths

Biomes O Plenty : Adds in many different biomes types and interesting blocks into the build.

Bountiful : Adds a bounty board to villages.

Bountiful Baubles : adds in a variety of fun and exciting custom items to find in your adventures.

Open Glider : Adds gliders that you can hang glide from island to island with.

Organic Creepers : Turns creepers into plants that grow over time and eventually sprout into creepers. When creepers explode they will plant more seedlings.

Recurrent Complex : adds a structure spawning system

Rope bridge : adds a bridge launcher that builds bridges FROM RANGE.

Stygian end biome expansion : Adds in new biomes to the end.

Trinkets and baubles : Lots of fun trinkets and baubles to find in your adventures.

Trumpet Skeleton : Doot

Hang glider

Quality of Life

(Everything that frustrates you less, and engages you more. No more potion effects clogging your screen, no more random spam of useless chat from mods. Pick up chests and furnaces without breaking them, dive and move freely! All in one mod guides, know where you're getting hit from! start the game with all your keybinds and options sorted out. know what most enchantments do, chop down trees with a few mighty swings, autofill your hand when you run out of blocks or tools, carry big backpacks, experience invulnerability while connecting! And many more handy little things to make the game just feel more convenient.)

Clean View: Keeps potion effects from glitching into your camera.

Cleanse : Filters out unneeded spam from various mods.

Better Diving : Improves the diving movement and mechanics to be similar to Subnautica and 1.13 swimming movement.

Carryon : Allows you to pick up small creatures and carry tile entities like furnaces around without actually breaking them and putting them in your inventory. Very immersive and well done mod.

Akashic Tome : A mod that adds a helpful guide that can hold many different books from different mods within a single guidebook. Very helpful for new players and helps centralize and keep things a bit less confusing and hectic to get into.
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/akashic-tome

Damage Tilt : Tilts your camera towards damage so you can more easily turn to defend yourself from a threat.

Default Options : Allows us to set up your client with default settings so you can load into the game with the settings being pre-optimized and ready to go including a default keybind set up so you do not have to go through the pain of setting key bind after keybind.

Enchantment Descriptions : Adds a description to most enchantments from many mods.

Enchantment Storage : allows you to store all of your enchantment books into a single helpful block.

Ez Storage : very simple vanilla friendly storage solution for having thousands and thousands of blocks.

Fast Leaf Decay : Makes leaves decay quickly after cutting down a tree.

Ht's Tree Chop : Chop down mighty trees from a single block with a heft of your mighty axe!

Heres what your looking at : Shows onscreen info for what block you are looking at, very helpful in big modpacks.

Inventory Tweaks : Very handy QOL mod that performs must have functions like autofilling your hand while building after running out of blocks.

Journey Map : Awesome minimap and map that makes exploring so much easier.

Login Shield : Upon newly joining a world and while connecting this mod will protect you from harm.

Mine Menu : Adds in a vanilla friendly and helpful Radial menu (A must have when modpacks require allot of keybinds)

Morpheus : Sleep system based on votes. If 50% of a server is asleep the night will be skipped.

Mouse Tweaks : Helpful QOL tweaks regarding the mouse.

Move Plus : Climbing system that is very handy in a world made of sky islands.

Random Tweaks : A collection of QOL tweaks.

Travelers backpack : A must have mod after you use it a few times that adds backpacks to the game.

Wall-Jump! : Allows you to jump off walls or hold onto them by pressing and holding shift when you hit a wall!

What are we looking at? : Gives you info about what you are looking at.

Waystones : Teleport around!
Custom Starting Gear : Allows us to give the player specific items upon starting a game, as well as remove items added to your starting hotbar by other mods so you are not cluttered with random things from other mods.
WorldEdit : Needed for builders and modders to copy and create schematics.

Debugging

LagGoggles : Allows us to spot and diagnose lag causing entities and code.

Loading Profiler : Shows us which mods take up all the load time.

Spark : Allows us to diagnose and find lag.

TellMe : /tellme gives us info about the world, entities, items, pretty much everything. Very helpful

Tick Profiler : /tps gives the current ticks per second. Helpful while optimizing .

Worldgeneration profiler : Gives info about world generation to help optimize when cascading chunk gen occurs.

-mod dependencies

shadowfactsforgelin
Torotraits
TickCenteral
Placebo
Orelib
NeptuneFX
MixinBootstrap
Minerva Library
MDXlib
Lunustrius core
LLibrary
Library Ex
Konkrete
Ivtoolkit
Ichunutil
Core mods required for the functionality of some other mods.
guide api
gottschcore
Geckolib
Fantastic Lib
Creative Core
CoroUtil
controlling
Carrots Library
AppleSkin
AutoRegLib
Baubles
Bookworm

(A huge thanks to all the hard working people who have helped make this pack possible. Every single mod in this list, was made by someone with a love for the game. Someone who worked their butt off to help create fun!)

Dev Team
Bug testers/Balance team :
Armoreon(Finds the most frustrating game mechanics and reminds me nonstop to fix them xd)
Me (fixing crashes and bugs all day) :/

Coders :
Dumonu : (Helping us work on shaders to eventually deliver even more stunning visuals!)
EminGTR : (The amazing artist of Complimentary shaders, who is graciously helping us in extending shader support for sky islands!)
Anar4732 (Created the Aerobird mod which adds a custom mob and functionality for us to spawn mobs in the air in any biome!)

Builders :
Azlazz (Building structures for the player to explore)

Gabrielito294 (Creating floating houses and dungeons!)
Zeraph (worked on fiver for awhile, sadly took his account down. so i cannot link him. Created a multitude of floating houses for the player to explore)
Polytb (Really nice guy who's building structures and cool things for the player to find as they explore!)
Floating Island Structure By Azlazz

Showcases :